this is an overview of a 2012 Chevrolet Volt this particular
Chevrolet Volt is driven everyday and has approximately 50 100 miles on it
and we want to show you the the car and show you the features of the car
on the outside of the car here we have low-rolling-resistance tires that help
contribute to the high fuel economy these tires are inflated to 38 psi which is a
little higher than the normal passenger car tire but of this size and they all have the
tire pressure monitoring systems in them in the will about stems to transmit the tire pressure
to not only the dash or the instrument panel but to the remote app for a smartphone so if you've
got an iPhone or Android there's an application for it that will you can read the tire pressures
remotely you can turn the vehicle on remotely and get it warmed up or cooled down depending
on the weather and you can also check the fuel economy and the battery range the Chevrolet
Volt isn't what they call it an extended range vehicle it is not a hybrid vehicle and it's not
a gasoline-powered vehicle either it's kind of a combination of both a battery or an electric
vehicle EV and a gasoline-powered vehicle this has a 1.4 liter engine in it that powers a generator
that will propel the vehicle it generates enough electricity to power the electric motors the jet
that propelled the vehicle down the road as you drive once you run out of battery power
the charge port for the battery is right here in front of the driver's door and pop that open it
is and we can connect a standard J 1772 connector to that charge port and you get it closed up here
so there's a 110 volt charger that comes with the car takes about ten hours to charge the battery
there's an optional 240 volt charger that you can buy for your home it's about five hundred
dollars there's a three hundred and sixty dollar tax credit for that for the 2011 model year for
2011 year for 2012 vehicle so our fuel door or battery charge doors they're our fuel door was
on the other side in the back this only holds a little over nine gallons of gasoline in the 50
100 miles or so that I've driven this vehicle I've only put in twenty three gallons of gas
which if you take the miles driven divided by twenty three gallons I'm up to two hundred and
sixteen miles to the gallon of gasoline used and of course it charged the vehicle battery every
day and this vehicle will run on battery alone until the charge level is down to a
certain point and then the gasoline engine will start automatically and create enough
power to propel the vehicle so we're going to get inside the vehicle and we'll pull it
inside the shop and take a look under the hood and inside the passenger compartment here also